I've used Plex, currently on Emby - why should I switch to Jellyfin, they seem identical? Almost a fork really. Appreciate the info, this is a real question and I can make the switch easily enough :)
Jellyfin: Free Software Media System
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Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System
#32I've been a Plex-to-Jellyfin convert for a long while now, and I've nothing bad to say. I switched because Plex kept pushing their streaming services, and the fuzzy feeling I get from running FOSS. Jellyfin used to run on my desktop which has a beefy CPU/GPU, but runs fine on my puny Synology NAS.
How much of your use is audio streaming? I'm dying to make my collection remotely accessible after leaving the Plex ecosystem.
Just try Navidrome!
Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System
#33One feature I would like to see catch on is having media center software installable on a router. Plex does this[1] which means you can use the USB drive on a router to store and stream your media files without a NAS / media server. Simple setup, I would like to see routers as clients[2] for Jellyfin.
[1] https://support.plex.tv/articles/230934267-netgear-nighthawk...
Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System
#34I switched off of Emby to Jellyfin a fairly long time ago. It’s pretty good. I’ve had some annoying issues upgrading my instance over time, but otherwise it generally works. The ecosystem is also a bit young, but I have no huge complaint about the apps. Finamp is pretty nice for example; it’s a Jellyfin client optimized for music playback.
Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System
#35In contrast to most people in this thread, I don't find Jellyfin to be an all-around great experience. Maybe because I run the JF client on a Google Chromecast, and the "Jellyfin for Android TV" app is very unstable. I get roughly one crash a day, mostly when restarting a movie-watching. The UI is okay, but there are a lot of small annoyances (why is there no "restart from beginning" button? Why can't I use the "wheel/cursor thing" on my remote to go forward/back?, why does it so often fail to automatically recognize/parse filenames, or download cover art? Why can't a folder contain both movies and tv series?).... All in all, it's mediocre at best, but I'm still glad it exists: despite everything, I still use it over other alternatives, because it's open source and works well enough. I can live with having to restart the client every now and then.
Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm curious - why does it matter if Plex is pushing their streaming services? Isn't it really easy to ignore?
You can actually toggle them all off in the settings. You'll never see them in a client after that. I have no problem with Plex doing this. They're trying to show value for a service rather than just gatekeeping premium convenience features. My problem with Plex is the utter distain they show for users by not having any sort proper bug triage. Users throw themselves at a forum that staff members rarely interact with.…
This is a surprising comment! I have a lifetime plex pass from probably 8 years ago. They had a bad release a few years ago that broke some stuff. Made a post. They asked for logs and I uploaded them and they pushed a new build with a fix the next day. Only time I’ve interacted with them and it was super pleasant. My main consumers and my friends with young kids with kid shows and plex runs everywhere and even small kids can work the interface. I really enjoy it!
Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System
#37I've used Plex, currently on Emby - why should I switch to Jellyfin, they seem identical? Almost a fork really. Appreciate the info, this is a real question and I can make the switch easily enough :)
Jellyfin is an OSS fork of Emby, which went proprietary and stopped distributing source code.
Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System
#38Tangential note about Plex; if you're like me and are disappointed by the default buffering behavior in Plex basically making it near-impossible to seek between already-buffered positions easily, I've been using https://github.com/iwalton3/plex-mpv-shim to cast Plex from my phone to mpv on my linux media box with great success.
I'm also using this. Odd quirks, such as the device appearing twice as a fling/cast target, and apparent random net events which make the web client on OSX pop over the "do you want to continue here" pane. (I posted to the plex forums about this btw)
the shim works fine. And, there appears to be a jellyfin shim in the same model.
Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System
#39Jellyfin doesn't run on FreeBSD because .NET doesn't run on FreeBSD. This is sad.
I thought it ran under linuxulation
Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System
#40I've setup jellyfin on my media server but I barely use it because the web player bugs make it unusable for me. I think most issues are due to the fact my hardware is underpowered for the task, and the player gets confused when the server replies come slow and not in the same order as they were requested. In practice subtitles go out of sync regularly, I get "codec not supported by browser" messages with the actual video playing fine behind it when seeking and frequently enough to make watching videos too annoying to bother.
There are also other annoyances like the player forgetting my subtitle selection when jumping to the next video of the same season of a show.
There's also no quality setting that is just "stream the source file directly". It seems to always want to transcode when embedding subtitles, which I guess is done by ffmpeg on the server but is really the player's job.
I know they're working on a new player, though it's not included in jellyfin yet.